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The battle between senators Cory BookerDN.J. and FBI Director Kash Patel broke out at a hearing Tuesday, with Booker Patel on a controversy over his time at the bureau.
Booker accused Patel of making the country “weaker and less secure” and predicted that he would not last as FBI director before yelling.
“I don’t think you’re going to be long,” Booker said at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. “I think this might be your last oversight hearing because Donald Trump showed us the will of Donald Trump in his first term, not the U.S. Constitution, and during this time he wasn’t loyal to someone like you.”
Senator Cory Booker, DN.J., presented FBI Director Kash Patel at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the “FBI Oversight” in Capitol Hill, Washington, DC, on September 16, 2025. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Image)
Patel turned around and said, “It’s my time, not yours, this is the rant of false information that has not brought this country together.”
“My God! My God!” Booker screamed.
Booker grilled Patel in a FBI shooting and gave a grand jury testimony in the indictment of Donald Trump for confidential documents.
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Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-IOWA, interjected and scolded Booker, calling for orders. New Jersey Democrats attacked violently after the inquiry was over.
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